Intelligent Chair Sensor: Classification of sitting posture

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 383 CCIS, Issue PART 1, 2013, Pages 182-191

  Martins, Leonardo ^a   Lucena, Rui ^a   Belo, João ^a   Santos, Marcelo ^a   Quaresma, Cláudia ^a,b   Jesus, Adelaide P ^a   Vieira, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BEJA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Neural Networks; Posture Classification; Posture correction; Pressure distribution sensors; Sensing chair; Sitting posture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFICATION; POSTURE CLASSIFICATION; POSTURE DETECTION; PRESSURE MAPS; SENSING CHAIR; SITTING POSTURE;

SENSORS;

EID: 84904599220     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41013-0_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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